Goodell says there’s momentum for expanding the playoffs

[stillers4me]

The league has its reasons for expanding the playoffs. 47.1 million of them, precisely.

That’s the size of the audience for Sunday’s wild-card game between the 49ers and Packers.

Speaking at an event in New York City on Tuesday night, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that momentum exists for expanding the postseason, via Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post.

Expansion, which recently was touted by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, would entail the addition of one team per conference. That team, a third non-division winner and No. 7 seed overall, would play the No. 2 seed in the wild-card round. Thus, only two teams per year — the top team in each conference — would get a bye............

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[fansince'76]

What momentum would that be? Corporations having to buy out the unsold tickets for 3 out of 4 wildcard games to avoid local TV blackouts (which has got to be pretty damn expensive and also begs the question of how long will they keep doing it)?

Delusional, as usual.

[salamander]

But it's what the fans want!!!!!!

[X-Terminator]

HELL to the NO.

Hasn't this greedy bastard done enough to ruin the game? 12 teams is plenty.

[Dwinsgames]

lol he should worry about a solution to selling out the games they have now before they look to try and expand the cash cow

[Shoes]

HELL to the NO.

Hasn't this greedy bastard done enough to ruin the game? 12 teams is plenty.

Yes but with more teams comes more fines….and add two more games to the regular season for player safety sake.

[steelreserve]

I am pretty sure it would not be long before this resulted in a 6-10 team making the playoffs, and then .. man, that would just about be the last straw as far as having any credibility left.

[blackngldblood]

I'm sure Jerry's lobbying hard because he knows that's the only way his consistently shitty team will sniff a playoff berth again! Well, until he decides to retire that is...


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[Butch]

What momentum would that be? Corporations having to buy out the unsold tickets for 3 out of 4 wildcard games to avoid local TV blackouts (which has got to be pretty damn expensive and also begs the question of how long will they keep doing it)?

Delusional, as usual.

EXACTLY!!!

"That guy" listening to Jerry...Talk about the looney's running the asylum!!!

[vader29]

[ALLD]

Why not just put the top 24 teams in the playoffs? That way almost everybody gets a ribbon.

[T&B fan]

is this " momentum " that he speaks of the same as the fans asking for 18 games ?? and then we find out no one was asking ... as I said before if you need to have more playoff games , everyone plays no bye week fore the top 2 teams ...

[zulater]

I'm not sure if most Steeler fans are aware of it, but since and including 2009 the Steelers have missed the playoffs 3 times. In each of those seasons the Steelers were the first team out. In other words were the playoff field expanded going back to 2009 had everything else stayed the same we would be on a 7 year run of consecutive playoff appearances.

And I still don't want this. And I know of no Steeler fan that does. Watering down the playoff field cheapens the accomplishment. I don't want to see a 7-9 team take out a 10+ win team. Again Goodell and his cohorts prove they know nothing about the fans, and the only relevant thing to them is short term financial gain.

[Bluecoat96]

Why not just put the top 24 teams in the playoffs? That way almost everybody gets a ribbon.

This. Lol

[Edman]

You want to fix the playoff format?

Move the divisions from four back to three. Bring back the Central Divisions. Seattle stays in the NFC, Houston moves to the AFC West.

The best playoff format was pre-2002. Six playoff teams. Three Division Winners, Three Wild Cards. The Top Wildcard Team actually got a home game. It worked great.

[plenewken]

The league has its reasons for expanding the playoffs. 47.1 million of them, precisely.

That’s the size of the audience for Sunday’s wild-card game between the 49ers and Packers.

Speaking at an event in New York City on Tuesday night, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that momentum exists for expanding the postseason, via Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post.

Expansion, which recently was touted by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, would entail the addition of one team per conference. That team, a third non-division winner and No. 7 seed overall, would play the No. 2 seed in the wild-card round. Thus, only two teams per year — the top team in each conference — would get a bye............

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This moron is doing pretty much everything in his power to kill the game. If he expands the number of teams making the playoffs, I bet there will be a team with a losing season there. <sigh>

[steelerdiva]

Please...this is all about getting TV and fantasy football revenue. If there is "momentum" from this, it's from the so-called casual fan who gives less than a damn about the actual integrity of this game, which is getting eroded big time by Goodell.

[oneforthetoe]

lol he should worry about a solution to selling out the games they have now before they look to try and expand the cash cow

Here are your reasons:

2006–2013 CBS ($622.5 million/yr) Fox ($712.5 million/yr) NBC ($650 million/yr) ESPN/ESPN Deportes ($1.1 billion/yr) NFL Network (2nd half) ($0/yr) $3.085 billion/yr
2014–2021 CBS ($1.0 billion/yr) Fox ($1.1 billion/yr)

Comcast:
NBC (Eng)
Telemundo (Esp)
($950 million/yr)

ESPN/ESPN Deportes ($1.9 billion/yr)

NFL Network ($0/yr)

NBC (Wks 1, 12) $4.95 billion/yr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television

They want more of this and blackouts be damned.

[Godfather]

Is he taking advice from Bud Selig or something?

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You want to fix the playoff format?

Move the divisions from four back to three. Bring back the Central Divisions. Seattle stays in the NFC, Houston moves to the AFC West.

The best playoff format was pre-2002. Six playoff teams. Three Division Winners, Three Wild Cards. The Top Wildcard Team actually got a home game. It worked great.

This would be a great idea. Only problem is the current divisional format works really well for scheduling.

[MrPgh]

Those of you calling Goodell an idiot for wanting to expand the playoffs, keep in mind Art II said he was open to that idea as well.

[oneforthetoe]

Those of you calling Goodell an idiot for wanting to expand the playoffs, keep in mind Art II said he was open to that idea as well.

I have no doubt the majority of the owners are for it. Mo Money.

[Edman]

Is he taking advice from Bud Selig or something?

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This would be a great idea. Only problem is the current divisional format works really well for scheduling.

If it keeps 8-8 and 7-9 mediocrity out of the postseason and lets teams with 10+ Wins a legit chance to get in then it's all good with me.

So Many 10+ Win teams that are kicked out, but an 8-8 team gets in because they won their terrible division.

AFC East: Bills, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, Colts
AFC Central: Steelers, Ravens, Jaguars, Titans, Bengals, Browns
AFC West: Broncos, Raiders, Chiefs, Texans, Chargers

NFC East: Eagles, Giants, Cowboys, Redskins, Panthers
NFC Central: Bears, Packers, Buccaneers, Rams, Vikings, Lions.
NFC West: 49ers, Cardinals, Seahawks, Falcons, Saints

[X-Terminator]

Please...this is all about getting TV and fantasy football revenue. If there is "momentum" from this, it's from the so-called casual fan who gives less than a damn about the actual integrity of this game, which is getting eroded big time by Goodell.

This...

I have no doubt the majority of the owners are for it. Mo Money.

...and this.

[MrPgh]

If it keeps 8-8 and 7-9 mediocrity out of the postseason and lets teams with 10+ Wins a legit chance to get in then it's all good with me.

So Many 10+ Win teams that are kicked out, but an 8-8 team gets in because they won their terrible division.

AFC East: Bills, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, Colts
AFC Central: Steelers, Ravens, Jaguars, Titans, Bengals, Browns
AFC West: Broncos, Raiders, Chiefs, Texans, Chargers

NFC East: Eagles, Giants, Cowboys, Redskins, Panthers
NFC Central: Bears, Packers, Buccaneers, Rams, Vikings, Lions.
NFC West: 49ers, Cardinals, Seahawks, Falcons, Saints

No, I think winning the division would get you a home game. They'll just be adding one more team per conference for a third wild card team.

So these would be the AFC playoff teams from 2013:

1. Denver
2. New England
3. Cincinnati
4. Indianapolis
5. Kansas City
6. San Diego
7. Pittsburgh

Wild Card match-ups: #7 PIT vs. #2 NE, #6 SD vs. #3 CIN, #5 KC vs #4 IND, Denver gets a bye

NFC:

1. Seattle
2. Carolina
3. Philadelphia
4. Green Bay
5. San Francisco
6. New Orleans
7. Arizona

NFC Wild Card match-ups: #7 ARZ vs #2 CAR, #6 NO vs #3 PHI, #5 SF vs #4 GB, Seattle gets a bye.

Arizona is the team that got left out that really deserved to make the playoffs. They went 10-6.

[oneforthetoe]

Honestly, I think it cheapens the game by, more often than not, showcasing poor teams. That said, it probably benefits the Steelers in the short term, because while we rebuild our D we can always have hope that with Ben, if we get in, we have a shot.

[vader29]

Report: NFL playoffs likely to expand to 14 teams in 2015

The momentum for playoff expansion continues, and changes could be coming as soon as the 2015 season. TheMMQB.com's Peter King is the latest to suggest that the NFL postseason could add two teams, bringing the total to 14, and the topic will almost certainly come up at the owners meetings next week.

"I'm hearing it's probably a matter of when, not if," King wrote Monday, adding that the league might be inclined to have just one team in each conference earning a first-round bye. That would mean six wild-card games with No. 2 vs. No. 7, No. 3 vs. No. 6 and No. 4 vs. No. 5. There's also the possibility that at least one of those games would be on Monday night.

If this all sounds familiar, it should. The Washington Post reported last month that there was "a lot of momentum" for playoff expansion beginning in the 2015 season, and commissioner Roger Goodell admitted as much in January, during the 2013 playoffs.

"That is under serious consideration," Goodell said of adding more teams to the postseason mix. "We think it's one of the great things about the NFL, besides the fact that it's unscripted. Every team and their fans start the season with hope. You mentioned the fact that for 11 straight years we've had a team go from last to first, that's unique to professional football and the NFL, that doesn't happen in other sports. And that's because we have such a competitive league and we want to keep that."

Last season, a 14-team playoff field would've included the Steelers and Cardinals, two teams that just missed the postseason with 8-8 and 10-6 records, respectively. One of the arguments against expansion is that it makes the 17 weeks of th regular season less meaningful, a concern that carries little weight when the counterargument is "more money in owners' pockets."

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...-teams-in-2015

[ALLD]

And the Steelers in last year's playoffs would have been an abomination eclipsed only by the complete denutting of the Broncos in the Super Bowl.

[st33lersguy]

Why not expand it to 32 teams while we're at it, right Roger? It will create more money

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Changing things that did not need to be fixed, that is all Goofdell is about

[Galax Steeler]

Why not expand it to 32 teams while we're at it, right Roger? It will create more money

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Changing things that did not need to be fixed, that is all Goofdell is about

Right on it is all about money, Goodell that sorry piece of shit needs to go!